It’s not about BODIES, stupid
Alison Phipps says we’re “stalking” her “profile,” which apparently means seeing one of her tweets. How very dare we.
Reading the Definition of Political Whiteness from Her Book does not, oddly enough, convince me that her way of deploying it is clever and enlightened.
Nope. Not convincing. Why “whiteness”? Why that word instead of another? Why not maleness or richness or powerfulness?
I haven’t read her book so I don’t know, but I suspect it’s because it sounds good. It sounds hip and knowing and like what the cool kids say. It’s sort of like jazz or blues or hip hop, ya know? But academic. Academicish.
So, does that help her make the case that we nasty “gender crits” are tainted by this evil whiteness thing, this interaction between supremacy and victimhood?
Well, not as far as I’m concerned, but no doubt the cool kids think it’s genius.
Oh dear. It’s trans hatred of women all over again, except now there’s a new fun feature: you don’t have to be white-bodied to be White — so now we can hate people of color and still be cool and woke!
Now they can call Martin Luther King Jr. “a white dipshit” and hate on him for not having had the foresight to dream up whatever latest bullshit they just invented. Amazing.
Black is white! Night is day! Democracy is fascism! Jefferson was the antichrist! (Get the reference?)
GW:
All part of a level of purity policing worthy of fundamentalist Christianity-or Pol Pot?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/us/san-francisco-school-name-debate.html
Everyone has SINNED, SINNED I tell you! Against an ever changing coterie of victims and orthodoxies.
@GW #1
I believe it came from a Doonesbury cartoon, where a professor is lecturing to some bored students. In disgust, he starts ranting.
It’s not about hating people of color though, it’s about a new and more perverse way of hating women. You won’t find Alison Phipps verbally hating people of color, only women, specifically only white women. It’s as if she’s being held hostage and is feeding the guards one woman at a time.
Yes! You win!
Ugh. :-( Perverse indeed.
I haven’t read the book either, but just reading the excerpted paragraph gives me the feeling of sinking into a morass of words that lack clear definitions or referents.
OK
Huh? What does what do? The experiences? Experiences don’t do anything: they aren’t agents. Does she mean, “How do these experience affect the people who have them?” Does she mean something else? Are these code words that key into some subtext that I’m not privy to? Does she mean anything at all? Is this just filler? Is someone paying her by the word? Am I going to have to excavate her meaning from every ‘graph in the book?
Brian M #2
Can’t wait to see what the new names of these schools are going to be because if “…remove the names of those “who engaged in the subjugation and enslavement of human beings; or who oppressed women, inhibiting societal progress; or whose actions led to genocide; or who otherwise significantly diminished the opportunities of those among us to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” ” is the standard, well, we have to find out who ARE these saints who walked or are walking among us?
Got any male revolutionary figure or activist who has not treated some women in his life like garbage?
Any of the men having schools named after them ever paid to rape a prostituted woman (which is encouraging the slave trade of prostitution)?
Any woman having a school named after them found to have hired an undocumented trafficked worker?
Does the fact that men who claim to be women certainly are diminishing the opportunities and rights of real women count?
They may as well play it safe and name the schools after animals or plants or minerals at this point.
Maybe they will take the safe New York City route.
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She also teaches intersectionality using Lego Duplo – the bricks too big for toddlers to swallow. Her students it seems will swallow anything; I wonder if they ever ask themselves if it’s worth running up tens of thousands of pounds of debt for the privilege. Sooner or later some of them will look back on a wasted youth, and will still owe the money.
It’s impressive in a way that the University of Sussex can find room for both the preposterous Phipps and the excellent Prof Kathleen Stock OBE.
None of this is new. We found out four years ago that straight black men are the white people of black people. We found out last summer that latinos and Asians have white privilege and are complicit in white supremacy. We also learned that white lives don’t matter, and the worst white lives are those of the Karens. So now we just codify and make explicit that principle.
Sometimes, after immersing myself in this shit, I have to check my leftist bona fides to make sure I haven’t somehow become a Republican. It really does a number on my view of humanity and progress.
Re the New York City route: I grew up in NYC. I went to two elementary schools, one junior high, and one high school. The elementary schools and the junior high were numbered. Two had names that I remember, but nobody used those names except as an answer to a trivia question. Even the junior high school song used the number.
High schools are named, not numbered. They are large schools, so there are fewer of them; less than 600 of the 1800 schools in the city.
I don’t think numbering would work in places with much smaller school districts.
My exact thought. Why must schools be named after people? The high schools in our town are named after the town (one of them) and the county (the other)…which actually does make the second named after someone, so to speak, since our county is named after John Adams.
I don’t like the numbering route. It seems safe, yeah, but having a name does mean a lot to many people. I didn’t like the name of the grade school I went to because I had no idea who that woman was, but at least it was named after a woman.
Now, if I got to go to, say, Geode High School? How cool would that be?
I grew up in a town that’s still living off a rather famous battle fought there almost 250 years ago (though really it was more of a rout). The first elementary school I went to was named after the captain of the militia that fought the battle (that school closed long ago); the second after the woman whose gift of $1000 helped establish the town library*; our junior high (now middle) school was named after the drummer boy, and our high school after the town. Nothing objectionable as far as I can see in any of that.
The largest high school in our current county used to be named “Washington-Lee”, but they changed that to “Washington-Liberty” a couple of years ago (and everyone knows it as W-L anyway). Also, the bit of Route 1 that runs through the county was changed recently from “Jefferson Davis Highway” to “Richmond Highway” (the county wanted to change that long ago, but they needed permission from the Commonwealth).
*The library is also named after her, but somewhat confusingly the school uses her maiden name while the library uses her married name.